pink flamingo spinner invitation

We just had my daughter’s 9th birthday party it was so much fun! I have some photos to share but I didn’t get too many since I had to organize games and play lifeguard to eighteen 9 year olds! It was cute – and so were they! She wanted boys and girls and wanted a party with games and swimming. Her real birthday is in May so we had to wait and have the party when the true summertime was here. The kids played games like water ballon toss {huge hit!}, egg & spoon race, ring toss and horseshoes, and lots and lots of swimming! I tried pushing the sack races but they were just not into it. Hmmph. And of course, I hired my neice to make the cupcakes. So cute and yummy!

{watercolor drawings}

The color scheme included all the rainbow colors with a big pink flamingo as a fun icon/decoration. I designed the invitations as a spinner card with a cut out revealing all the fun activities that would be at the party. I drew small illustrations to show the activities and painted them in a quick watercolor technique. After printing both the top circle layer and the bottom illustration layer, I cut them out and poked a brass grommet through the center so they could spin. They were pretty simple to construct, the only tricky part was getting the illustrations to line up correctly to see them in the cutout. Add in a big pink flamingo and that was it! I made simple labels {also with a flamingo} and used brown kraft envelopes. 

The party was a success and even better – it’s checked off my list! Did I say that out loud? Happy Monday!